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PS. Thanksgiving was only made a holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. The reason he made it a holiday was simple: He needed a new holiday that celebrated Americanism to promote North+South unity in the post Civil War era. Thanksgiving is a holiday intended to celebrate the country of America, much like the Fourth of July. There are religious roots to the event it is named after, but not the holiday itself.